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Whatever it took
May 8, 2019
The School of Nursing building owes its existence to the 2008 recession. Then-Dean Colleen Conway-Welch and her team knew that the school’s growth would require expanded space for teaching, faculty offices and clinical training. She knew just where to get it: add two floors on top of Patricia Champion Frist Hall, which had been designed…
Phillippi to direct School of Nursing’s Nurse-Midwifery specialty
May 7, 2019
Julia Phillippi, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, assistant professor of nursing, has been named academic director of the Nurse-Midwifery program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She will also co-direct the Nurse-Midwifery/Family Nurse Practitioner dual-focus specialty with FNP Academic Director Courtney Pitts, DNP. The Nurse-Midwifery specialty is one of the school’s most competitive programs and is…
Technology better than tape measure for identifying lymphedema risk
May 3, 2019
Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) is better than a tape measure for assessing a woman’s risk for developing lymphedema after breast cancer surgery, according to interim results of a study led by Sheila Ridner, PhD, RN, Martha Ingram Professor and director of the PhD in Nursing Science Program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.
ANA President to give May 13 VUSN Dean’s Diversity Lecture
May 3, 2019
Ernest J. Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, the 36th president of the American Nurses Association and the first man elected to that office, will give the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) Dean’s Diversity Lecture on Monday, May 13, noon-1 p.m., in VUSN’s Nursing Annex room 161. Grant’s lecture, “Nursing at the Crossroads: The Future of…
Diversity in Action calendar for May 2019 available
May 2, 2019
Looking for events and activities relating to diversity and inclusion? Check May 2019’s Diversity in Action for VUSN, Vanderbilt and local cultural events, along with listings of nursing conferences with a diversity and inclusion emphasis. More
A Dad’s Guide to Sex After Baby
May 1, 2019
Michelle Collins, certified midwife and assistant professor of nursing, provides insight on how breastfeeding could impact your sex life after birth. She notes that it can be difficult for breastfeeding moms to “switch the roles” of their breasts from feeding implements to sexual objects.
